The following is an excerpt from an 1867 document.
...Such measures will be taken as will inform all Freedmen entitled to be registered, of the
necessity for, and the time and
place
of
registration, and of the time and place of voting. They
will also be instructed that, as
they will not be allowed to suffer from the honest exercise of the
right of suffrage, they should disregard all
threats or undue influence tending to prevent or
restrain the same..."
Source: National Archives
Circular #9, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
May 1st, 1867
How did southern communities violate the rights guaranteed in this document?
the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan
the establishment of new state constitutions
the establishment of poll taxes and literacy tests
the establishment of the sharecropping system